07.02.2009 5:39 pm
Climate change deniers follow typical but strange pattern
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Mr. O’Toole’s skeptical letter on global warming follows a typical but strange pattern. He denies that it’s happening and admits that it’s happening (but it’s natural). Let me address his errors. First, global temperatures have NOT cooled in the last decade. Here is what global-warming deniers must do to make this claim (other than outright lying): 1998 was an extremely warm year, so they compare the average temperature of the last ten years to 1998. This allegedly shows that temperatures are cooling. Unfortunately for them, if they select 1997, they must admit that every year since then has been hotter. If they select 1999, they must admit the same thing. If they choose ANY year on record prior to 1998, they must admit that every year after 2000 has been warmer. Only 1998 works for them. Scientists use all the data. They don’t pick and choose. As for the increased ice at the South Pole, warmer temperatures have allowed more precipitation to fall in the form of snow. As for climate changing naturally in the past, well, forest fires occur naturally too. That does not mean we don’t cause forest fires. If projections of 5°C warming in this century are realized, we will experience about the same warming that occurred over a 5 thousand year period at the end of the last ice age. That is not natural!
William Moran
Innsbrook
Ok nut case, I will sell you the JB Bridge too. A fool born every minute.
Given the PD’s agenda, is this really the best they could do? Noone offered a letter with even a hint of documentation? I love the last line, “that is not natural.” I would agree Mr Moran, if it cools 5 degrees C in this century, that would not be natural either. Pitiful.
Did you ever notice many the same people who deny the truth about climate change also question Germany’s extermination of the Jews in 1930? Is there a pattern here?
DThomas..what’s a noone? My grandmother wouldn’t take a sip of brady until after the noon school bus went by…
She called it a Noon-ee.
“Scientists use all the data. They don’t pick and choose.”
…as in hockey-stick?
Yep, a fool born every minute–then there is Garrison, the damn fool.
William is clearly an uneducated, Obama voter who incapable of making a rational argument. These are the people running our country? God help us.
Garrison would be comical except that he is serious. Funny how the left-wing fascists accuse those who argue against them of being fascists.
William and Garrison, why are you people that easy? Why do you believe whatever you hear? You sheeple are amazing to me. Why is the “Sky is Falling” mantra so easy for you people and frankly why do you believe this crap? The worst of it is that it’s ruining this country. Amazing!
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange
http://www.globalwarminghoax.com/news.php
http://www.ncpa.org/pdfs/GlobalWarmingPrimer.pdf